Plath misconceptions (1 Viewer)

[svad]

ALOT of secondary sources claim Plath said the following about her poem 'Daddy' written in a 1962 BBC script:

"Here is a poem spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze each other—she has to act out the awful little allegory once over before she is free of it."

But I can't find this script?? I can find a radio interview of the same date but sources say it was only written in the script, not read out-loud. Could it be that I can't find it because it was from the 1960's so it's possible theres no digitalised copy? Or is it a misattribution/ paraphrase from a later critic’s commentary on her work?

Help me i told my teacher i would find the recording/ script it and send it to her today

 

[tigerian]

I wonder if this helps . I remember it . Ive used th3 recording . I will keep looking .


Sylvia Plath as Electra - Confluence

NYU
https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu › context › sylvia-plat...




20 Feb 2019 — In the aforementioned BBC script note, she explained that the father of the narrator died when she still thought he was God. The emotional

 

[tigerian]

ALOT of secondary sources claim Plath said the following about her poem 'Daddy' written in a 1962 BBC script:

"Here is a poem spoken by a girl with an Electra complex. Her father died while she thought he was God. Her case is complicated by the fact that her father was also a Nazi and her mother very possibly Jewish. In the daughter the two strains marry and paralyze each other—she has to act out the awful little allegory once over before she is free of it."

But I can't find this script?? I can find a radio interview of the same date but sources say it was only written in the script, not read out-loud. Could it be that I can't find it because it was from the 1960's so it's possible theres no digitalised copy? Or is it a misattribution/ paraphrase from a later critic’s commentary on her work?

Help me i told my teacher i would find the recording/ script it and send it to her today

or do you mean this one ?


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Interviews with Contemporary Poets Conducted by Hilary Morrish, Peter Orr, John Press, and Ian Scott-Kilvery. London: Routledge (1966).
Missing: 1960s ‎electra ‎riptb

 

[svad]

I wonder if this helps . I remember it . Ive used th3 recording . I will keep looking .

Thank you so much!! I've already found the radio recording of the interview between Plath and Orr for BBC on the 30th of October 1992, but the recording doesn't include that specific line people claim Plath has said. Apparently it was only written, never read out-loud in the interview.

I guess information can never really be 100% trustworthy when there are only secondary sources. However some of these secondary sources are somewhat reliable? So could it be safe to say she really did write it somewhere?

 

[tigerian]

Thank you so much!! I've already found the radio recording of the interview between Plath and Orr for BBC on the 30th of October 1992, but the recording doesn't include that specific line people claim Plath has said. Apparently it was only written, never read out-loud in the interview.

I guess information can never really be 100% trustworthy when there are only secondary sources. However some of these secondary sources are somewhat reliable? So could it be safe to say she really did write it somewhere?

ok I found this as well and it does contain that quote you mentioned above . I dony know if its the one but one final attempt


Antiserious
https://antiserious.com › sylvia-plath-reads-daddy-4c57...




It is a poem in which Plath is seen to be metaphorically killing her father who, in real life, died when she was nearly eight years old

 

[svad]

ok I found this as well and it does contain that quote you mentioned above . I dony know if its the one but one final attempt

Yeah i don't think this is the one, since it's technically still a secondary source. Thank you though. I think it can only be implied she ever said it